No later than May 23

9838
DIRECTIVE TO E. M. SKLYANSKY
[Between May 20 and 25, 1919]

To Sklyansky for urgent i n q u i r y to the Central Administration of Supply (in Saratov as well). W e  m u s t  a d o p t  a  r e s o l u t i o n  h e r e  t o d a y.

¹ The directive was written on a telegram from the Commander of the XI Separate Army N. Zhdanov and Chief of the General Staff S. Balandin from Astrakhan to V. I. Lenin, reporting on the reasons for the abandonment of the Black Market, on the grave situation of the army in connection with poor reinforcements and supply (see also Lenin Miscellany XXXIV, p. 139 and the note by A. I. Rykov published below, dated May 30, 1919).

9882
POSTSCRIPT TO THE TELEGRAM OF N. N. KRESTINSKY 
TO KH. G. RAKOVSKY¹
[No later than May 23, 1919]

In communicating this response to you, I request that you answer me whether you are satisfied or not, and, if not, what precisely you desire.

Lenin

Published from typescript copy

¹ The postscript was appended to a telegram from the People's Commissar of Finance N. N. Krestinsky to Kh. G. Rakovsky regarding the quantity of monetary instruments sent to Ukraine.

On May 26 V. I. Lenin returns to this question and telegraphs Kh. G. Rakovsky (see Complete Collected Works, vol. 50, pp. 325–326).

26079
NOTE BY DIRECT TELEGRAPH LINE
TO A. I. RYKOV
[May 30, 1919]

In a few days
Raskolnikov and a special commission
will depart for Astrakhan to investigate the shamefully cowardly or